EAST SURRY CHAMPIONSHIP RINGS

THE 3 TIME EAST SURRY LADY CARDINALS STATE CHAMPIONSHIP SOFTBALL TEAM WILL RECEIVE THEIR CHAMPIONSHIP RINGS TONIGHT AT THE EAST SURRY/WEST STOKES FOOTBALL GAME . COME OUT AND SUPPORT THE LADY CARDINALS ON THIS MOMENTUS OCCASION!!! CONGRATULATIONS GIRLS!!!

 

I'm glad your school is doing that for your girls.

The SC 2010 AAAA State Champions got their rings during a meeting in the coaches office before school started.

 

I hear you!

In some places a nose ring brings headlines while wonderful accomplishments such as these are barely mentioned.

Congratulations to your team and to East Surry!

 

....props to East Surry!

.......and props to Phreak for a classic post.

Fishman

 

ES softball team named in top 10 all-academic teams, athletes
by Staff Report Mount Airy News



The 2009-10 state championship East Surry High School softball team has been recognized nationally for its high academic achievements as well, for a second consecutive year.
slideshow STARKVILLE, Miss. — For the second consecutive year, East Surry High School’s softball team has been ranked in the 2010 girls got game/National Fastpitch Coaches Assocation Top Ten All-Academic Team rankings.

Last year, the 2008-09 team was recognized as No. 5 in the nation in high school weighted grade-point averages. This year, the 2009-10 team from Pilot Mountain is ranked No. 4, with a weighted GPA of 4.138. They are the only North Carolina team to make the high school top 10 lists for weighted or nonweighted GPAs.

East Surry Coach Derrick Hill said this week that 12 of his 15 team members also made the NFCA list as individuals.

Those recognized individually are Kelsey Wilson, Brooke Bowman, Christian Smith, Elizabeth Isaacs, Haley Shelton, Hannah Merritt, Jessica Barker, Morgan Chilton, Paula Kiser, Samantha Smith, Sara Scott and Sarah Horton.

The girls got game Academic Awards program honors both collegiate and high school teams for their submitted GPAs for the 2009-10 academic year. As a second component of the program, all submitted student-athletes who achieved a 3.50 GPA during last academic year are named as girls got game/NFCA Scholar Athletes.

In the high school categories, Splendora High School from Texas took top honors amongst teams with weighted GPAs with a 4.592, while Arlington High School in Nebraska was the leader amongst non-weighted schools with a GPA of 3.836.

The high school weighted top 10 teams are:

1. Splendora High School (TX) – 4.592

2. Blythewood High School (SC) – 4.405

3. St. Mary Academy-Bay View (RI) – 4.282

4. East Surry High School (NC) – 4.138

5. Cambridge Christian School (FL) – 4.027

6. Lincoln Southwest High School (NE) – 4.020

7. Flagler Palm Coast High School (FL) – 4.000

8. West Chester East High School (PA) – 3.982

9. Washburn Rural High School (KS) – 3.968

10. Blue Valley North High School (KS) – 3.905

“I’d be curious to know of the top 10 schools how many are also state champions,” Hill said. “We are three-time defending 1A state champions. We know how to play, and we know how to do it in the classroom, too. And that’s what they’re here for in the first place.”
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JUST WANTED TO SHARE THIS TIDBIT OF INFORMATION THAT WAS ANNOUNCED WHEN THE GIRLS ACCEPTED THEIR CHAMPIONSHIP RINGS FRIDAY NIGHT!!! NOT ONLY ARE THEY CAHMPIONS ON THE FIELD BUT IN THE CLASS ROOM TOO!!! LUV MY CARDINAL GIRLS!!!!!